XI ' C>6 Merrill: Reliquiae Robinsonianae 309 



ERYCIBE Roxburgh 

 ERYCIBE LATERIFLORA Elm. Leafl. Philip. Bot. 5 (1913) 1767. 



Amboina, Hitoe lama, Rel. Robins. 1822, November 6, 1913, in forests at 

 an altitude of about 75 meters. 



Previously known only from Palawan, Philippine Islands. 



BORAGINACEAE 



EH RET I A Linnaeus 

 EHRETIA MICROPHYLLA Lam. 111. 1 (1791-97) 425. 



Ehretia buxifolia Roxb. PI. Coromandel. 1 (1795) 42, t. 57. 

 Amboina, from cultivated (?) plants in the town of Amboina, Rel. 

 Robins. 1850, September 13, 1913, locally known as te. 

 India to Malaya and the Marianne Islands. 



HELIOTROPIUM Linnaeus 

 HELIOTROPIUM INDICUM Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 130. 



Amboina, in the town of Amboina about houses, Rel. Robins. 1851, Nov- 

 ember 21, 1913. 



Widely distributed in the tropics of the Old World. 



TOURNEFORTIA Linnaeus 



TOURNEFORTIA SARMENTOSA Lam. 111. 1 (1791-97) 416. 



Amboina, Liang, Rel. Robins. 1852, November 29, 1913, climbing over 

 trees at low altitudes. 



Mauritius, Java, Timor, and the Philippines. 



The Amboina plant seems to be specifically identical with the Philip- 

 pines form that Gagnepain, Not. Syst. 3 (1914) 33, states is identical with 

 Lamarck's type, which was from Mauritius. 



VERBENACEAE 



GEUNSIA Blume 

 GEUNSIA PENTANDRA (Roxb.) comb. nov. 



Callicarpa pentandra Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 83, nomen nudum, Fl. 



Ind. ed. 2, 1 (1832) 395. 

 Geunsia hookeri Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 7 (1912) Bot. 342. 



Amboina, Soja, Rel. Robins. 1860, October 24, 1913, in light forests at 

 an altitude of about 300 meters; Koesoekoesoe sereh, Rel. Robins. 1861, 

 October 3, 1913, in light forests at an altitude of about 275 meters. 



Callicarpa pentandra Roxb. was very inadequately described, the original 

 description being as follows: "10. C. pentandra R. Shrubby, tender parts 

 mealy. Leaves opposite, with an alternate one between, oblong, entire, 

 cuspidate. Corymbs axillary. Flowers pentandrous. Stigma from three 

 to four-lobed. A native of the Moluccas." It has been reduced to Geunsia 

 farinosa Blume, but the Amboina specimens do not agree with those from 

 Java and the Malay Peninsula. I consider that the specimens cited above 

 represent exactly the same species that I recently described from Philippine 

 material as Geunsia hookeri, and accordingly have adopted Roxburgh's 

 specific name for it in place of the more recent Geunsia hookeri Merr. 

 So far this particular species is known only from the Philippines and 

 Amboina. 



